Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Looked After Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner within the Looked After Children Team to work Full Time based in Enfield.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is up to £54,333 per annum .

Main duties:

* To provide a casework service to the most vulnerable looked after children.

* To carry out assessments and undertake care management responsibilities in the area of looked after children and safeguarding statutory social work.

* To undertake the preparation of reports, statements and such other legal documents as may be required in relation to children Family Proceedings Courts, within the relevant timescales to attend Court and represent the Children Services.

* To support the management team with mentoring of newly qualified social workers, facilitating workshops and short training events.

* To manage, implement, monitor and review care plans involving users and liaising with other workers and agencies as appropriate.

* To be aware of the resources available within the specialist area, including other sources of funding so that the maximum benefit maybe obtained for service users within budgetary resources of Children Services.

* To comply with the Children Services recording policy, and to complete appropriate forms and documents as required.

* To make use of management information systems, including information technology, in the recording, retrieval and analysis of information as required.

* To be managed by and receive supervision from the immediate line manager/designated person, and to be assessed against agreed standards and targets.

* To work as part of a team, participating in the Duty system as required.

* At all times to carry out responsibilities with due regard to the Council's Equal Opportunities/Race Equality and Health and Safety Policies as an integral part of the post.

* To undertake any other appropriate duties commensurate with the post as directed by the Team Manager, Service Manager or Head of Service.

Requirements of this Advanced Social Work Practitioner role:

* A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Extensive Experience Working in a Statutory Social Care Setting with Adults.

Contact:

This Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement

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